With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

The Mississippi River continues ... were found used to be Fort Pickering, a base used for shipping by both Confederates and the Union over the course of the Civil War. The historian, 63, also ...

Initial Union attempts ... the Battle of Fort Sumter began the Civil War. The Anaconda Plan included both a blockade of the ...

After the US Civil War began ... control of the Mississippi River, which flowed into the Gulf of Mexico at the city. After the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861, the Union had placed a naval ...

After the Civil War millions ... river water—conditions that also took the lives of Union soldiers. African Americans who enlisted in the Union Army lived in barracks inside Fort McPherson ...